Entry № 2065 · Welsh origin

Cigfa Cigfa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIG-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Welsh
Meaning
"Welsh mythological princess (Mabinogion)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Welsh)

A name that means "welsh mythological princess (mabinogion)".

Cigfa is the Welsh mythological princess of the Third Branch of the Mabinogion — daughter of Gwyn the Beardless, wife of Pryderi son of Pwyll of Dyfed.

Featured in the Mabinogion.

Welsh princess. Pryderi's wife in the Mabinogion.

The name in its native script.

Cigfa
Transliteration
Cigfa
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɪɡ.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cigfa stands.

Cigfa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Cigfas before her.

Real people
Cigfa
Welsh mythological figure.
In fiction
Cigfa
Mabinogion Third Branch.

Names connected to Cigfa.

The number behind Cigfa.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cigfa reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.